Funding search · The McKnight Foundation · grants
The McKnight Foundation: all 4,463 grants
Largest first · $656.9M across 2020–2024 · back to the overview
- $107,000
Institut De L'Environnement Et De Recherches Agricoles · 2023
Integrating value chain, Farming Research Network and Agroecological intensification approaches on Bambara nut based farming system for food systems transformation
- $106,000
Minga Foundation for Rural Action and Cooperation Marco · 2024
Agroecological management of purple top and the psyllid in the Andes - Purple top project
- $105,000
University of Eldoret · 2022
Community-driven interventions for sustainable food systems and soil water conservation in the Drylands, West Pokot
- $104,000
Soils Food and Healthy Communities Organization · 2024
Agroecology Gender-transformative Living labs for Climate Resilience (AGILE4Climate)
- $104,000
Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique Du Niger · 2021
Exploring new ways of agro-ecological intensification of pearl millet-based subsistence farming in Niger (CATI-Gao)
- $104,000
Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique Du Niger · 2021
Exploring new ways of agro-ecological intensification of pearl millet-based subsistence farming in Niger (CATI-Gao)
- $104,000
Boys & Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation · Ronan, MT · 2020
For the Polson Club building fund
- $102,000
Association Malienne Deveil Au Developpement Durable · 2020
Farmers Knowledge II
- $102,000
Fuma Gaskiya · 2020
Women's fields-III: Refining FUMA Gaskiya's farmer research network approach with special emphasis on co-creation and data sharing with farmers
- $101,000
Fuma Gaskiya · 2022
Women's fields-III: Refining FUMA Gaskiya's farmer research network approach with special emphasis on co-creation and data sharing with farmers
- $101,000
Cirad · 2021
Feeding the soil and feeding the cow to feed the people: co-designing agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in sudano-sahelian zone of Burkina Faso
- $101,000
Cirad · 2021
Feeding the soil and feeding the cow to feed the people: co-designing agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in sudano-sahelian zone of Burkina Faso
- $101,000
Fuma Gaskiya · 2021
Women's fields-III: Refining FUMA Gaskiya's farmer research network approach with special emphasis on co-creation and data sharing with farmers
- $101,000
Fuma Gaskiya · 2021
Women's fields-III: Refining FUMA Gaskiya's farmer research network approach with special emphasis on co-creation and data sharing with farmers
- $101,000
Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique Du Niger · 2020
Transforming Rural Communities in West Africa through Grain Processing, Market-led Nutrition, and Social Innovation
- $100,000
Aapi Civic Engagement Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Access Philanthropy Charities · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
to build on civic engagement momentum among Asian communities across Minnesota and increase strategic capacity and partnerships
- $100,000
Active Transportation Alliance · Chicago, IL · 2024
for the Illinois Clean and Equitable Transportation Campaign
- $100,000
African American Leadership Forum · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
African Economic Development Solutions · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
to support powerful organizations rooted in, and accountable to, multi-racial and multi-class bases within states
- $100,000
Artspace Projects · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
to delay the Go Dark Date for The Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts beyond January 31, 2024 and through March 2024
- $100,000
Asociacion Nacional De Productores Ecologicos Del Peru · 2024
Agroecological Youth in Action for Peru
- $100,000
Association of Black Foundation Executives · New York, NY · 2024
For program support
- $100,000
Ayada Leads · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Build From Within Alliance · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Building Dignity and Respect Standards Council · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Canary Media · Boulder, CO · 2024
to facilitate the merger of Canary Media and Energy News Network
- $100,000
Center for Evaluation Innovation · Washington, DC · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Central Minnesota Arts Board · Foley, MN · 2024
for re-granting programs in support of individual artists and culture bearers
- $100,000
Chisholm Legacy Project · Burtonsville, MD · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Clean Energy Economy Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
to build a stronger and more equitable innovation ecosystem in Minnesota and the Midwest for energy and climate technologies
- $100,000
Climate Cabinet Education · San Francisco, CA · 2024
to help Midwest communities leverage federal funding and equitably transition to clean energy
- $100,000
Climate Land Leaders · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Closeknit · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Commonbond Communities · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · Johnstown, PA · 2024
for the Reimagine Appalachia program to transform Appalachia, Ohio, and the Ohio River Valley region of Appalachia through state and local action
- $100,000
Community Power · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
to support the equitable and replicable implementation of a Twin Cities Community-Based Energy Efficiency Navigator Pilot Program
- $100,000
Comunidades Organizando El Poder Y La Accion Latina Copal Education · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Conservative Energy Network · Lansing, MI · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Creative Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Dream of Wild Health · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Earth Charter Indiana · Indianapolis, IN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Eden Prairie Community Foundation · Eden Prairie, MN · 2024
to create a project infrastructure that accelerates and supports the founding of local nonprofit newsrooms in the network and provides shared services to make these newsrooms sustainable
- $100,000
Electrification Coalition Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
to drive at-scale municipal fleet electrification and charging deployment in the Midwest, leveraging federal funding opportunities and ensuring effective implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure an… read allto drive at-scale municipal fleet electrification and charging deployment in the Midwest, leveraging federal funding opportunities and ensuring effective implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure and the EV-related IRA programs less
- $100,000
Entertainment 2 Affect Change · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
to research, develop, cast, and film for sales materials and final product of a multi-episode television series, featuring Sean Sherman, about indigenous culinary ingredients, culture, history, and their impact today
- $100,000
Environmental Health Watch · Cleveland, OH · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Environmental Law & Policy Center of the Midwest · Chicago, IL · 2024
to promote electric grid transformation through enhanced equity, access, and inclusion
- $100,000
Environmental Protection Network · Washington, DC · 2024
for increased capacity support to provide organizations with technical assistance to submit state and federal level grants for climate and clean energy projects
- $100,000
Environmental Working Group · Washington, DC · 2024
to launch a campaign to educate Midwest leaders about nitrous oxide emissions and to build awareness of the threat posed by nitrous oxide emissions
- $100,000
Envision Communities · Ham Lake, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Exodus Financial Services · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Faith in Place · Chicago, IL · 2024
to educate, engage, and empower faith communities, especially in environmental justice communities, to advocate for clean, equitable transportation public policies in Illinois and build awareness of federal and state cl… read allto educate, engage, and empower faith communities, especially in environmental justice communities, to advocate for clean, equitable transportation public policies in Illinois and build awareness of federal and state clean energy incentives less
- $100,000
Fmw Nonprofit Solutions · Minnetonka, MN · 2024
For program support
- $100,000
Food & Water Watch · Washington, DC · 2024
to build public support for policies that reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and generate opposition to false climate solutions in Iowa, a key state for influencing national agricultural policy
- $100,000
Food and Environment Reporting Network · New York, NY · 2024
to support reporting in the Midwest on climate change and agriculture, equity issues in agriculture, and worker issues in the food system including Midwest-based reporters and audio producers
- $100,000
Fortis Capital · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Fuma Gaskiya · 2024
Womens fields IV: Building on the FUMA-FRN for a farmer-centered agro-ecological transition amidst the challenges of food insecurity and climate change in the Maradi region of Niger
- $100,000
Fundacin Aliados · 2024
Case study research, Enabling rural farm enterprises to improve local livelihoods and increase ecosystem services; and to enable a farmer research network to validate agroecological options that respond to local context
- $100,000
Grassroots Power Project · Berkeley, CA · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Great Plains Action Society · Iowa City, IA · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Greater Minnesota Worker Center · Saint Cloud, MN · 2024
for program support
- $100,000
Greater Minnesota Worker Center · Saint Cloud, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Grist Magazine · Seattle, WA · 2024
to deploy a partnership model in the Midwest that supports local news in telling the story of climate, justice, and solutions
- $100,000
Grupo Yanapai · 2024
AGUAPAN II : Promoting Agrobiodiversity in the Central Andes of Peru, Institutional Innovation for In Situ Conservation and Use of Agrobiodiversity
- $100,000
Habitable · Washington, DC · 2024
to engage Minnesota's affordable housing sector to reduce the use of hazardous building products from 70% to less than 50% in the next 2 years, advancing health equity and climate justice
- $100,000
Initiative Foundation · Little Falls, MN · 2024
to advance clean energy projects and continue existing gap lending and equitable workforce initiatives
- $100,000
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Strengthening agroecology at the interface of national and international policies
- $100,000
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
to expand and improve farm conservation programs in Midwest states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon, while advocating for greater limits on emissions from large-scale factory farm systems in the M… read allto expand and improve farm conservation programs in Midwest states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon, while advocating for greater limits on emissions from large-scale factory farm systems in the Midwest and nationally less
- $100,000
Instituto Apoyo · 2024
to support work that centers the leadership of artists and culture bearers
- $100,000
Instituto Para El Desarrollo Rural De Sudamerica · 2024
Consumers of Cochabamba
- $100,000
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement · Des Moines, IA · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Iowa Farmers Union Education Foundation · Ames, IA · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Isaiah · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Jewish Community Action · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Juxtaposition · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization · 2024
Using promising agroecological management practices to facilitate landscape restoration and enhance environmental conservation and sustainable productivity of western Kenya smallholder systems
- $100,000
Land Stewardship Project · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
to steward climate justice planning and capacity building with Midwest BIPOC farmers
- $100,000
Lanesboro Arts Center · Lanesboro, MN · 2024
for capacity building and program support for BIPOC Artist Residency and Gallery Equitable Systems Change
- $100,000
League of Minnesota Cities · St Paul, MN · 2024
to enable cities to seek grant funding to make community improvements
- $100,000
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources · 2024
to develop and test a model for facilitating participatory, holistic agroecological landscape management in Northern and Central Malawi
- $100,000
Living Through Giving Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
to improve the mental and emotional health of incarcerated individuals
- $100,000
Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
to build capacity to support, organize, and develop the leadership of values-aligned local public leaders throughout Minnesota
- $100,000
Meridian Institute · Dillon, CO · 2024
to support the Systems Based Investing Field Lab on Midwest Row Crop Diversification, a small three-day convening of private wealth owners and agriculture system transformation leaders to transform row crop production t… read allto support the Systems Based Investing Field Lab on Midwest Row Crop Diversification, a small three-day convening of private wealth owners and agriculture system transformation leaders to transform row crop production to diversified approaches less
- $100,000
Meridian Institute · Dillon, CO · 2024
Action Summit in East Africa: Farmers, Soil, Environment, Health, Economics
- $100,000
Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation · Detroit Lakes, MN · 2024
to advance CDFI support
- $100,000
Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
to support Phase II of Greater MSP's federal funding initiative
- $100,000
Minnesota Community Action Association Resource Fund · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Minnesota Council On Foundations · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
for inclusive democracy and climate action work; and to support a public education campaign pooled fund
- $100,000
Minnesota Public Radio · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Model Cities of St Paul · St Paul, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2024
to support policy advocacy and advance a just energy transition in low wealth communities and in communities of color in Indiana
- $100,000
Mzc Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
to produce geospatial analysis, planning assets, procurement strategies, research and advocacy supporting transmission siting in the transportation right-of-way, in partnership with state transportation, energy agencies… read allto produce geospatial analysis, planning assets, procurement strategies, research and advocacy supporting transmission siting in the transportation right-of-way, in partnership with state transportation, energy agencies, and transmission developers less
- $100,000
National Forestry Resources Research Institute (Naforri) · 2024
Strengthening co-developed agro ecological options for sustainable and resilient agri-food systems in selected landscapes of eastern Uganda
- $100,000
Navigate · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024
to support community organizing efforts across Illinois
- $100,000
New American Development Center · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association · Worthington, OH · 2024
for general operating support
- $100,000
Onecommunity Alliance · Saint Cloud, MN · 2024
for general operating support

